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Bad news, more bad news, and extra especially bad news is the usual order of the day for Irish archaeologists, so good luck to Headland Archaeology, promising the creation of 35 commercial archaeology jobs last week. The team launched their new office in Dublin, opened by Batt O’Keeffe, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation. Read more
When it comes to leading ladies, Marion Ravenwood owns this website’s heart. But if truth be told, there was once another contender: Dr Elsa Schneider – the Austrian art professor in Indiana Jones and The last Crusade. She played our heart like a cheap fiddle, achieving the unlikely feat (in the words of Empire magazine) of making a Nazi sympathizer seem sympathetic. Take the following exchange: Read more
Ever since Gordon Childe attempted to record the entire Skara Brae excavation on a prototype Etch A Sketch, archaeologists have hunted high and low for the holygrail in trench technology: a paperless device that can take the library to the site and the site to the library in one easy seamless move. Read more
When I first got the email inviting me to talk at the Maidstone AA Group, I thought it must be an aggressive new technique designed to shock high functioning alcoholics out of denial. But ‘AA’ actually stands for ‘Archaeological Area’, and reading further I realized that the Maidstone Group were recruiting speakers for their meeting – held monthly at the Kent Police College. Read more
